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Indelible Acts

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099433484

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 160g

  • RRP: £12.99

Indelible Acts

The twelve stories in Indelible Acts are variations on a theme of longing - the unassuagable human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift of all: reciprocal love. Its characters' lives are thwarted, dashed, impassioned, each in their own way immolated by hope. A queue outside a cheese shop leads to a thrilling infidelity; a crematorium funeral exposes a love gone sour; a foreign hotel room becomes a diorama of despair as physical sickness becomes a metaphor for incurable grief. In the title story, two lovers confront their lusts amid the ruins of Rome; in 'A Bad Son' a young boy from a damaged home searches for some kind of peace in the newly fallen snow.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099433484

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 160g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • "Brilliant... These 12 stories are among the most devastating you will read this year"

    Daily Telegraph

  • "This woman is a profound writer"

    Richard Ford

  • "An astonishing writer, with an imaginative empathy that seems to know no bounds"

    Time Out

  • "These are powerful, intimate and angry stories. Kennedy writes with flaying precision about the things we won't often admit to ourselves, let alone speak aloud"

    Daily Mail

  • "The clarity, wit and descriptive intensity of (Kennedy's) style are uplifting and the collection ends on a note of fragile hope... A writer in her thirties, who is becoming one of Britain's best"

    The Times

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About the Author

A.L. Kennedy

A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards – including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in Essex.

A.L. Kennedy

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